Luke Chapter 22 verse 50 Holy Bible
And a certain one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and struck off his right ear.
read chapter 22 in ASV
And one of them gave a blow to the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.
read chapter 22 in BBE
And a certain one from among them smote the bondman of the high priest and took off his right ear.
read chapter 22 in DARBY
And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
read chapter 22 in KJV
read chapter 22 in WBT
A certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
read chapter 22 in WEB
And a certain one of them smote the servant of the chief priest, and took off his right ear,
read chapter 22 in YLT
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 50. - And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. The name of the disciple who smote the servant of the high priest is given by St. John: it was Peter. He gives, too, the servant's name, Malchus. John wrote many years later, when Jerusalem had long ceased to exist; Peter, too, had passed away. Before this incident, St. John relates how the Roman and Jewish guards "went backward, and fell to the ground." What overawed the party of armed men is un-certain-whether some supernatural or merely a natural cause; possibly something of majesty in the Lord's appearance impelled these men to retire and reverently to salute him they were ordered to seize. St. John mentions this to show that it was of his own free will that he rendered himself up.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(50-53) And one of them.--See Notes on Matthew 27:52-56; Mark 14:47-49. It will be remembered that all the four Gospels relate the incident, but that St. John alone gives the name of the disciple. It is possibly characteristic of St. Luke's technical accuracy that he uses the diminutive form of "ear," as if part only were cut off. In Deuteronomy 15:17 it seems to be applied specially to the fleshy lobe of the ear.